In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we take you through what we had to do when removing the prop shaft. The key to removing the prop shaft is to start with th...

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we're at that same place again fast tell

me where are we at in the job I'll be

perfectly honest I've been putting this

off because I got so many trepidatious

thoughts key not coming out of the end

of the shift easily finding out that the

length of the shaft will butt up here

against the end of the rudder and we

won't be able to fully remove the shaft

without dropping the rudder and then

once we do have the shaft out how easy

is it gonna be to get this Cutlass

bearing out there are tools that you can

get to make the job easy

we don't have one and we're not likely

to be able to get one locally so first

things first they're gonna pull it out

get to the key mark the key with a

permanent marking pen and take it from

there really

it's like eating an elephant thing isn't

it it is eating an elephant yeah the

problem is I'm thinking of five bites

ahead and doing I'm gonna get

indigestion one bite at a time look easy

for me to say because I'm not the one

that's doing the hard yakking

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what the Cutlass bearing yeah I'm just

gonna mark so we know that this is the

end of the key yeah and that's the

bottom and this yep yeah you get a lot

of great suggestions from many of our

viewers of the video where we asked how

that key would come out and a lot of

people just said sprite with anything

lubricant grab your favorite pair of

mold grips or vice grips give it a good

yank so let's see how that goes a lot of

surface area there to grip did you spray

this sound cuz it might go in through

the gap at the top

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hmm you stick a little screwdriver in

the top there and sort of like a

screwdriver

how would it you talking quite heavy

forces here from the black marks

right more tools okay gonna need the

hammer screwdriver and a rag rag what

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getting it yeah I guess I need to get

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well no great success with wd-40 and

pliers hammer a screwdriver it hasn't

budged millimeter come back to our video

and I'm gonna go through the comments

again to see if there's anything I

missed

it's obvious that you know ironically

the key is the key to get the whole job

done so frustrating because then one

they had

I'm using punch instead of the

screwdriver because it's got you know

more surface area surface area this may

be it is you kind of think once it

started shifting that it would just

glide when you what it must be a really

really snug fit a longer handle punch

it'd be better hey show us what you've

dropped there bit of a man tool it's a

punch so I've got more let's say yeah

and that looks small enough to fit in

there Oh seriously

yeah just comes out of the one top it is

coming out it's it's definitely out

further than it was there you go

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see good certain piece of equipment that

isn't it okay okay okay let's celebrate

that

we had to use a big persuader and a lot

of belting so certainly not one tap and

he's out a lot of belting that's gots

lots of bears on it yeah so gonna get

that the Dremel I'll probably do that

anyway

here comes our next test see whether

we're gonna get this prop out having to

drop the rudder okay two wins so this is

the inside of a cup of berries education

nuts

well like yeah that's like seawater so

now the problem is how so is this the

part of yep Cutlass bearing yep already

remove the two grub screws to keep the

bearing in its position and

actually just look at a distance they

put it in wrong see the way they've got

the black group black bits and then

together it should be right there at the

base so when we put the new one in will

their prophet Patrick Sandin who has a

similar boat to assist these you know

son Odyssey forty five point two was

asking it about our glory folding prop

and what size is and with you really

know

I'd say we're probably looking at 50

centimeters an individual blade is 23

centimeters and the bit in the middle

about 8 okay all right so hopefully that

helps right now let's go up top and back

forward because there's something I want

to ask you guys

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inside our extremely dirty at the

moments anchor Locker we have a windlass

now this pole that's stored here goes

into the windows break and we've never

been able to use it because it is stuck

so the question is two questions really

what method would be best you think to

unstick it just a constant spray with

wd-40 over a week or so or is there

something better that we can do to

loosen it up and the other question is

to release the chain so it free falls

overboard do I push this this handle

forward or aft in other words is forward

tightening or is aft timing the wind

breaker

but eight bottles that's all I can carry

you can but is rate less than they were

on the beach before one miniscule beach

cleanup better than nothing oh hey I'd

like to take this opportunity to give a

big warm welcome to our newest patrons

Terry and Dennis Hamilton it's great to

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